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The Bihar government, therefore, should form a committee that consists of its representative and of the Jain community.
The court declares the agreement - entered between the Svetambaras and the Bihar government in 1963, and the claim of the rights over the shrine as void.
Anandji and Kalyanji trust appealed the Supreme Court of India to hear the case against the judgment of Patna High court. The Supreme court heard the case by F.N. Nariman and U.N. Bachawat, representing the Svetambaras, and by Soli, J. Sorabji, R.K. Jain, Harish Salai and D.K. Jain on behalf of the Digambaras. On November 6, 1997, the Supreme Court Justices M.M. Pumchi and M.V. Srinivasan declared that the judgment of the High Court of Bihar is valid on the grounds of the land act of that state, and therefore the case is been dismissed. (Gommatavani, a Kannada Jain fortnightly, 15 December 1997).
North American Jains as a whole have had an interest in this affair of Mount Sammeda, since they possess a deeper desire to establish the undivided Jain community here in the West.
Indeed this occasion where all Jains as a whole community would share the sacredness and the sanctity of the Mount Sammeda certainly heralds a new spirit of cooperation and harmony among all the Jains world over. O
CORRECTION The last issue of Jinamanjari October 1997 in its Front Cover has an error in its Volume, reading as 14. Please note that it should read instead as Volume 16 October 1997.
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